Technical Leadership Contracts in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 101 100
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +45
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 43 34 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.04% 1.23% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.46% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 42
10th Percentile £447 £463 -
25th Percentile £463 £523 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £648 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +20.47% -1.15%
75th Percentile £650 £822 £636
90th Percentile £738 £850 £673
England median daily rate £600 £620 £640
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £53.98 - -
25th Percentile £56.68 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £63.10 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% - -
75th Percentile £67.60 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £69.13 - -
England median hourly rate £67.58 £48.48 £62.00
% change year-on-year +39.41% -21.81% -17.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,867 2,327 2,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.53% 84.46% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,419 1,929
10th Percentile £296 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 263 151
10th Percentile £13.09 £11.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.03 £15.36 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year - -1.77% +29.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £44.78
90th Percentile £81.00 £67.32 £59.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Technical Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +3 20 £600 -14.29% 103
Cheshire +2 13 £475 - 9
Cumbria - 6 £605 - 8
Lancashire -1 2 £638 - 31
Merseyside - 2 £525 - 6
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (16.28%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Moodle
2 2 (4.65%) SAS
3 1 (2.33%) CICS
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.33%) Maximo
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) Azure
2 8 (18.60%) AWS
3 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Purview
3 6 (13.95%) OneDrive
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) Apigee
7 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) PaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Ethernet
1 3 (6.98%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (4.65%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) LAN
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
3 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.33%) Skype
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.33%) GIS
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.33%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) Git
3 3 (6.98%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Finance
5 3 (6.98%) Automotive
5 3 (6.98%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Military
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (44.19%) Architect
2 9 (20.93%) Lead
3 6 (13.95%) Technical Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Moodle Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) SAS Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.33%) Desktop Support
8 1 (2.33%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Kafka
2 3 (6.98%) Node.js
3 2 (4.65%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) Middleware
3 2 (4.65%) RESTful
4 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.33%) GeoJSON
4 1 (2.33%) Google Maps API
4 1 (2.33%) ISPF
4 1 (2.33%) Leaflet
4 1 (2.33%) MapLibre
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth
4 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.33%) React
4 1 (2.33%) Swagger
4 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.23%) Mentoring
1 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (27.91%) Technical Architecture
3 8 (18.60%) DevOps
4 7 (16.28%) Migration
4 7 (16.28%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (13.95%) Agile
5 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
5 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.95%) Data Governance
5 6 (13.95%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (13.95%) Data Protection
5 6 (13.95%) Zero Trust
6 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.63%) Due Diligence
6 5 (11.63%) Microservices
6 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
7 4 (9.30%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) PowerShell
2 7 (16.28%) SQL
3 5 (11.63%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) Bash
4 4 (9.30%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) CLIST
6 1 (2.33%) JCL
6 1 (2.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (4.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.33%) CA Endevor
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) IBM
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Citrix
5 1 (2.33%) F5
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) Mapbox
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) VMware